Trajectories of State Formation Across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia: Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences

About the Author

Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). He has published extensively on late medieval Syro-Egyptian socio-political and cultural history, including Order Out of Chaos (Brill, 2006) and Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History (Brill, 2016).

Product Description

Constructed around seven extensively contextualized case studies, Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia offers a critical trans-dynastic understanding of the socio-political histories and historiographies of the Sultanates of Cairo and of the Timurid, Turkmen and early Ottoman